Invitation to the events at the occasion of
the Doctorate Honoris Causa
awarded by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to
Prof. Dr. Lennart Ljung, Linkoping University, Sweden
on Tuesday October 12 and Wednesday October 13, 2004
in Leuven, Belgium

The Academic Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
<http://www.kuleuven.ac.be> has decided to confer the honor of 'Doctor
Honoris Causa' upon Prof. Dr. Lennart Ljung
<http://www.control.isy.liu.se/%7Eljung/> for his many contributions to
mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, including system
identification algorithms and software for linear and nonlinear systems
and for his high impact on the field, both in academia as in industrial
environments.

At the same occasion, two more Honorary Degrees
<http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/patroonsfeest/archief.htm> will be awarded,
one to Manuel de Sola-Morales
<http://www.jersemar.org.il/1998/morales.htm> and one to P. Ole Fanger
<http://www.ie.dtu.dk/ViewSciStaff.asp?ID=1>.

The Honorary Degree will be awarded in a special ceremony on Wednesday,
October 13, at 16.00 h in the central Promotion Hall of the K.U.Leuven
(Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven, Belgium), with Prof. Dr. Bart De Moor
<http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Edemoor> pronouncing the formal
'laudatio' in honor of Prof. Ljung.

For this occasion, a two day workshop will be organized, where we will
launch K.U. Leuven - SCORES <http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/scores> (Systems,
Control and Optimization in Research, Education and Services), an
interdepartmental initiative of the K.U. Leuven, to integrate all
research and teaching activities in systems, control and optimization.
This workshop is also co-organized by the Belgian Interuniversity
Attraction Pole 'Dynamical Systems and Control'
<http://www.auto.ucl.ac.be/IAPV/> and the Flemish Research Community
ICCoS <http://sun.fwo.be/item2/network4.php#ICCoS>.

The workshop starts on Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 09.00 h and ends on
Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 15.00 h, after which all attendees are
invited to attend the Honorary Degree Ceremony.

Full details on the location, the program, the internal and the invited
speakers, can be found at
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/scores/12-13oct2004.html.

There will be talks by representatives from local member teams of
SCORES, spin-off and other companies and invited guest speakers
(including Prof. Dr. Brian Anderson
<http://www.syseng.anu.edu.au/bdoa_cv.html>, Prof. Dr. Albert Benveniste
<http://www.irisa.fr/sigma2/benveniste/home.html>, Prof. Dr. Paul Van
den Hof <http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl> and other guests to be confirmed).

We would like to invite you to these two days of events. Registration
can be done at

http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/scores/

You can also send an email to ida.tassens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
so that we can add your name to our mailing list in order to keep you
up-to-date on further details.

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Yours,
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Program: This is a program of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences
at the National University of Singapore. The main objectives of the
program are to (i) review the recent development in the research on
material surfaces and interfaces, from experiment to theory to
simulation, (ii) identify critical scientific issues in the
understanding of the fundamental principles and basic mechanisms of
interfacial dynamics in different kinds of materials systems,
particularly those that are characterized by fluctuation, multiscale,
and non-equilibrium, and (iii) accelerate the interaction of applied
mathematics and computational science with physics and materials
science, and promote the highly interdisciplinary research on new
material interface problems with emerging applications.

Activities: The program will consist of a tutorial and two workshops
with ample opportunities for collaborative research among local and
international participants in areas of physics, materials science,
applied mathematics and computational science. The tutorial lectures
will be given by distinguished researchers on topics closely related
to the main themes of the program in materials physics, computational
materials science and applied mathematics. The first workshop will
focus on basic properties of material interfaces in nanoscale systems
while the second workshop will focus more on the mathematical and
computational aspects of the underlying researches.

Registration: Registration forms for participation in the tutorial or
workshop are available at
http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/nanoscale/index.htm. Completed
forms should be received by the Institute at least one month before
commencement of each activity. Registration is free of charge.
Institute membership is not required for participation.

Institute Membership: Membership application for visiting the
Institute under the program is also available from the website above.
Members of the Institute do not need to register for specific
activities.

Contacts: For general enquiries, please email ims@nus.edu.sg while for
enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Jian-Guo
Liu at jliu@math.umd.edu. More information about the program is
available at the website
http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/nanoscale/index.htm

This workshop on time-delay systems is the fifth in a
series of IFAC workshops, after Grenoble (France, 1998),
Ancona (Italy, 2000) Santa Fe (USA, 2001) and
Rocquencourt (France, 2003).

The objective of the organizers is to bring together
researchers interested in the field of control of time-delay
systems. Conference topics concern the many aspects of this
active research area, ranging from control theory over
numerical methods to various applications.